Monday, April 7, 2014

Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 10:28 AM

Republicans and Democrats don't stand for anything other than keeping their jobs — and if you're looking for the clearest example of that, look toward cannabis legalization where you'll find Democrats supporting the prison-industrial complex and modern Jim Crow; and you'll also find "small government" Republicans ready to analyze your urine for marijuana metabolites. (That's small!)

“As the 2016 presidential field shapes up, pot is becoming 'a sleeper issue,'" said Ari Fleischer, a White House press secretary for President George W. Bush. "'All of a sudden the ground is shifting, and it's uncomfortable and complicated. Marijuana has become an issue that candidates have got to pay attention to.'"

But Hillary Clinton, the Democratic front-runner for 2016, hasn’t said anything about weed in years. In the 2008 Democratic presidential primary, she said, “I don't think we should decriminalize.”

Keep in mind, using the state to enforce the immorality of cannabis use was a “progressive” idea from the 1930s, before it became part of the Republican bedrock.

And former Reagan advisor Ed Rollins thinks talking about a smaller weed war is still a non-starter for true Republicans. "I don't think arguing about rehabilitation-versus-prison will be a winning issue in a Republican primary."